About the Authors

Louis S. Ates

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

L.S.Ates@AMC.nl (LSA); roland.brosch@pasteur.fr (RB)

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France, Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Fadel Sayes

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France

Wafa Frigui

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France

Roy Ummels

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Merel P. M. Damen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France, Section Molecular Microbiology, Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicine & Systems, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Daria Bottai

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pisa, Department of Biology, Pisa, Italy

Marcel A. Behr

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McGill International TB Centre, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Canada

Jeroen W. J. van Heijst

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Wilbert Bitter

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Section Molecular Microbiology, Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicine & Systems, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Laleh Majlessi

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France

Roland Brosch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

L.S.Ates@AMC.nl (LSA); roland.brosch@pasteur.fr (RB)

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics, CNRS UMR3525, Paris, France

Competing Interests

LM and RB are named inventors on a patent related to RD1, RD5 and RD8 regions of BCG. MAB is a named inventor on a separate patent related to genomic differences of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. The other authors declare that no financial or competing interests exist.